Roller-bearing for side and end thrust.



O. S. LOGKWOOD.

ROLLER BEARING FOR SIDE AND END THRUST.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 28. 1910.

Patented Jan. 3, 1911.

1V Jaw/w W UNITED srnrns PATE T OFFICE.

CHARLES S. LOCKVI 001),, 01E NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HYAT'J. ROLLER; BEARING COMPANY, OF HARRISON, N EW' JERSEY, A CORPORATION 0F NEW JERSEY.

ROLLER-BEARING FOR SIDE AND END THRUS'F. I

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Jan. 3, 1911.

Application filed April 28, 1910. Serial'No. 558,227.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES S. LOCK- woon, acitizen of the United States, residing at 289 Market street, Newark, county of, Essex, and State of New 'Jersey, have invented certain new and useful I111prove mentsin Roller-Bearings for Side and End Thrust,'fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same. I

This invention relates to a roller bearing inwhich the rolls are contained in a casing -divided transversely having one part extended as a shell over the other part to embrace the same and hold it concentric with the hub ofthe bearing.

The invention furnishes an improved means for retaining the two parts oft-he divided casing together consisting of a groove upon the interior of the shell and a narrow ring having segments adapted to force into such groove, and arched portions intermediate to the said segments adapted when pressed to expand the segments into the groove. Such construction makes the roller bearing a unitary structure after the casing is assembled upon the rolls and the hub.

The invention also includes a sheet-metal cage of special construction adapted to embrace a series of rolls to divide the same in their bearing, the slots having notches attheir edges to admit collars upon the rolls, and lugs at the sides of the slots adapted to hold the rolls upon the hub when removed from the casing. Such a cage facilitates the assembling of the parts and their examina-- tion and repairs. v

The construction will be understood by reference to the annexed drawing, in which Figure l is a longitudinal section of a. bearing-embodying the invention, the sec- "tion plane being taken between adjacent rolls; Fig. 2- is an end view of the bearing with a portion of the cage broken away; Fig.3 is an elevationof the hub; Fig. 4 is an elevation of one of the rolls; Fig. 5 is an elevation of the separatebearing-ri' g viewed at its rabbeted end; Fig. 6 is a side elevation and Fig. 7 an end elevationof the cage; Fig. 8 is an end elevation and Fig. 9

an edge view of a locking flange with radial arches or corrugations; Fig. 10 is a side view, and Fig. 11 a cross sect onoI a, loclg ingflange with longitudinal corrugations, The hub a is shown with a groovej o'atthe middle of its length and cylindrical seats.

Z at opposite'sides of the groove. Each roll has a collar e about'the middletofit the .60

groove 0 and cylindrical bearing surfaces at. opppsitesides of the collar. v The casing has atone end an inte al bearing-seat f fitted to the bearingsur ace upon one 'end of the' rolls, and the other end is formed as an annular-shell formin fan. annular recess 9 invwhich aseparate' ear ing-ring g is inserted and fitted-t0 anteater-r lug-surface upon the other end of the rolls.

The, collars e fit between the bottom-oi .7 0 the-recess and the innerg-end of the 'ing'g. To retain this bearing-ring its working. position within the v casing, .an annular groove, is is shown in Fig.1 uponztherinnenyside of theshellat theouter endof the .bear-.-175 i;

ing-ring, and an annularrin 2' is shown.

groove to hold the bearing-ring in place. The locking-flange is made expansibleby forming upwardly curved portions] upon' the 80, 1

ring intermediate to the peripheral segments, andthe exterior 'of theeegmentsj are made-1 primarilyto fit into the recess g ofthegshel-i and adapted tobe crowdedoutwardly-into:

as a thin hub m with. ongitudinalarchesj Z".

formed therein ,intermediate tothe periph-. I

eral segments j.; Theope rationof this-con struction is the same-as that shown inFig...9,' the segments being [forced loutwardlyby, crowding .thearches radiall to expand ;the..

ring 2'. When the bearing-ring g-is thtis'm- 0 .tained in the casing,, theen a ement of the. I collars e upon the rolls wit t egrooves 1n the hub and easing enablesth .h bz d ing to resistendmovement'fin relation. :to

one another in a cons i'derab1e.-degree, a1- .105

though not intended foruse asaa thru t. bearing, and a cage to guide such rolls re quires the special construction as shown .10 quires strengthening and stifiening, which is effected, without increasing its length, by fiat flanges 'n which are in practice spunupon its opposite ends before the slots and tongues are punched.- The tongues are cutfrom the opposite sides of the slots when they are punched, and thetongues are first bent radially outward, as shown upon two of the tongues'p in Fig. 7, which permits the rolls tobe inserted throughthe slots into contact with the hub and into engagement with the grooves a therein, and the tongues are then bent 'over the-body of each roll, as

shown upon the remainder of the cage in.

' Fig, 7, and also in Fig. 2, to keep the rolls upon thehub when handledapart from the casing.

In practice, the rolls and bearing surfaces are hardened andground to the required dimensions, and the grinding of the-bodies.

; so of the rolls adjacent to the opposite sides of the collars e is facilitated by-making a small groove e inthe body adjacent-to the collar, which'is shown-only in Fig. 4-, and avoids the necessity of grinding a square corner,

wh ich no grinder would do continuously on account of wear. I p

When the arts are assembled and secured vtogether as escribed herein, they produce a roller-bearing which can be handled with- I 40 out the loss of any of its parts and which-is adapted to fitinto a cylindrical socket in any mechanical structure, the hub a being secured upon theshaft which needs, the antifriction support. v Fasteners for bottle corks have been made by corrugatin a soft metal ring which thus becomes wholfi expansible, but it is obvious from the above description that the locking segments 7' in my construction are non-ex- 60 pansible, whether made in the plane of the ,ring as in Fig. 8, or at right angles thereto in Figs..10 and 11, the ring to which they are\attached being the. only expansible portion! d rendered so by the arches intermediate Qthe segments. This construction is especially adapted for expanding aring made of thick metal, that is one-sixteenth of aninchthick', and possessing flat lugs'or segments adapted to fit snugly 1n the groove la. Such-lugs would not be flat if the ring were wholly. corrugated, and it could not ing for expanding it into the groove, it made one-sixteenth of an inch thick and wholly corrugated. The construction thus furnishes flat segments adapted to fit the plane of the groove and one which can be-readily. expanded when the locking-ring is set within the casing. 4

' Having thus set forth the nature of the invention what is claimed herein is:

l. In a roller-bearin the combination, with a cylindrical hub aving a transverse groove intermediate the ends, of a series of cylindrical rolls fitted to such hub and having each at the middle of its length a collar fitted to such groove, a casing having an integral cylindrical seat fitted to the rolls at one side of the collars and a separate bearing-ring g fitted within the casing with a groove k in the casing, at the outerend of such bearing-ring, and a locking-flange having a narrow annular body 71 with projecting segments j upon its periphery adapted to engage the groove is, and the body having arched portions intermediate to the said segmerits adapted when pressed to expand the segments into the groove.

- 2. -A roller-bearing having a hub, a set of rolls fitted thereto and a casing having at one end an integral bearing-seat to fit the rolls and a shell upon the other end witha separate bearing-ring g therein, with a roove in the shell at the end of such earing-Qring, a locking flangehaving'a narrow annular flat body 01 with segments j projecting from its periphery in the same plane as the ring and the bodyhaving radial arched portions intermediate to the said segments adapted when pressed to the plane of the ring to expand the segments into the groove.

3. A roller bearing having a cylindrical hub with transverse groove intermediate to the ends, a series of cylindrical rolls fitted to such hub and having each at the middle of its length a collar fitted to such groove, a casing ellcirclingt-hc rolls, and a cage having a cylindrical shell nwith flat strengthening flanges n; spun upon the ends and the shell-being slotted to accommodate the rolls, with tongues projecting from the longitudinal edges of the slots in the shell to partially embrace the rolls and notches in the same edges of the slots toaccolmnodate the collars on the rolls.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses:

CHARLES S. LOCKWOOD,

p be readily flattened when set within the cas- Innr W'. Asian. 

